Information Sheet

 

 

R         Phelps County (Mo.).  School District No. 2.  Big Bridge School.

596                  Record book, 1894-1908.

                                    One volume.

 

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This is the district clerk’s record book for School District No. 2 (Big Bridge School), lo­cated west of Rolla in Phelps County, Missouri.  Included are minutes of annual meetings of the district and the board of directors, teachers’ contracts, estimates of expense, records of warrants, and enu­meration of tax payers and students.

 

Big Bridge School was approximately two miles west of Rolla.  The school took its name from a nearby railroad trestle over a tributary of Beaver Creek.  The school district encompassed all of sections 16, 17, 18, and parts of 15, 19, 20, 21, and 24 in Township 37 North, Range 8 West.  George W. Gollahon and C. W. Campbell were the district clerks during the period repre­sented by the record book, while R. A. Colyer, J. H. Madigan, E. E. Paulsell, and O. P. Paulsell were chair­men of the board of directors.  Members of the Campbell, Dotson, Eddleman, Falken­rath, Flynn, Gollahon, Madigan, Merchant, Morse, and Paulsell families were prominent among the district’s officers and students.

 

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